Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gave him the go-ahead, Guterman decided to defer the offer for a year instead and travel to Israel and Egypt. Then, once at Harvard, he decided to comp the Lampoon art board and learn Arabic, both of which he did with great aplomb. Sinai explains, "Larry is extremely broad-minded politically, and he's always conscious of political issues--that's an important part of him. It's hard to find someone so willing to listen to anybody else...
...American failure to analyze Marshall's vision goes beyond economic and political miscalculation. How much of the prestige that attaches to the Marshall Plan is really a misunderstanding of its genesis and intent? The Plan itself provided only a broad sketch; among its most important guiding principles was pluralism, a willingness to let the Europeans experiment with both private enterprise and socialism in their recovery efforts. It was the Plan's lack of ideological rigidity that made it so profoundly useful...
...been supplanted by the Reagan Docrtrine, and our foreign policy seems to lurch from one knee-jerk reaction to communism to the next, we might best remember the Marshall Plan not as a bastion against the East, but as a foundation for the open development of the West. The broad strokes Secretary Marshall painted here four decades ago remain an object lesson in how to overcome the limits of ideology for a greater social good. They should also remind us that no policy guideline is worthy to stand eternal and uncorrected in a complex, changing world...
...annual address to incoming freshmen, President Derek C. Bok stresses the colloquial but underappreciated 'Harvard Experience.' We are here, he says to yawns, not only to excel in the classroom, but to learn from one another. Bok's idea of a broad education includes students engaging in public service activities and making friends from diverse backgrounds...
...Harvard, not unlike leaders in Washington, feel they function best by controlling and curtailing the dissemination of information. This business-academic division runs counter to what should be the essence of a true intellectual community, one in which both the theoretical and practical aspects of ideas would undergo broad scrutiny...